Special majority rules. Necessary and sufficient condition for quasi- transitivity with quasi-transitive individual preferences (Q1082227)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3972546
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    Special majority rules. Necessary and sufficient condition for quasi- transitivity with quasi-transitive individual preferences
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3972546

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      Special majority rules. Necessary and sufficient condition for quasi- transitivity with quasi-transitive individual preferences (English)
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      1986
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      Consider a social choice problem with a finite number of alternatives and at least three voters. Suppose that each voter's preference ordering is quasitransitive. Let P be the social prefererence ordering induced by special majorities (strictly greater than 1/2). The main result of the paper is a necessary and sufficient condition for P to be quasitransitive. The condition is a generalization of the familiar condition that there be no Condorcet cycle among three voters.
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      quasitransitivity
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      finite number of alternatives
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      special majorities
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